Doom! da ... Doom! Doom!.
Run it the way you want to ............. it's yours.

Stan Wilder

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff at Vanagonparts" <jeff@VANAGONPARTS.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: Oil Cooler

> First: I agree that it is better to keep the original cooler and add an
> external.
>
> That being said, my family and I raced VW powered vehicles for 30 years,
we
> always used external coolers and removed the original with no problems.
> When I was younger, and dumber, I ran external coolers on all my VW's,
once
> again with the stock cooler removed, no problems there either, at least
not
> with the engine (I had problems keeping all 4 wheels on the ground).
>
> I'm not trying to defend to practice of using an external cooler in place
of
> the stock, I just think some people are overdoing it a bit with their
> predictions of impending doom.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
> Of Tim Schneider
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:50 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Oil Cooler
>
>
> ** Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET> writes: **
>
>
>  >>If an accessory cooler is installed and the OEM cooler completely
> eliminated
>  >>I'd just guess that there needs to be provisions to raise the bypass
>  >>pressure in the oil filter mount.
>  >>So until I see viable scientific procedures that tell me that I can
>  >>eliminate the OEM oil cooler, OEM oil pressure bypass I'm going to
stick
>  >>with the VW configuration.
>
> the above is true.. learned the hard way in college on this one
> although the engine had other issues that led to its demise, this was
> probably one of the contributing factors
>
> 1835cc with dual webers Type I engine, it really made the bug
> go! (for awhile at least)
>
>   -tim
>
> 90 syncro westy
> mesa, az